Good Morning - well it is in Ayrshire
Thanks for the marriage info Polly.
Firstly Thomas's address on the parish register - Morton Place was a stone's through from Grange Street where Marion Woodburn (who looks extremely likely to be your ancestor ) worked.
Kilmarnock, 1839 had according to the
Statistical Accounts for Scotland which can be viewed for free at
www.edina.ac.uk 6 carpet factories (and indeed the trade flourished for many years, sadly all gone now) - so Thomas as a carpet weaver must have returned to Kilmarnock for work. Indeed the street he's living in- Morton Place - is probably named after Thomas Morton, also resident there in 1841/1851. He was an engineer who invented a barrel loom which revolutionised the carpet industry.
Although there are only 162 Woodburns living in Ayrshire according to the 1841 Census , I cannot see a relationship with any of them to Marion
John and Mary (nee Brown) see to have vanished. There are certainly no more births after Marion in 1819 and that would make me suspect that one or both of them could had died not long after. Looking for a remarriage for Mary Brown would take a lot of time, patience and cash and my turn up naught. A remarriage for John Woodburn might be able to be traced.
In fact this couple here interested me
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XT26-G25John Woodburn and Lily/Lilias/Lelia McSkimming married in 1824 at Maybole.
This couple are living at Cottage Inn, Kilmarnock on the 1841 Census -
WOODBURN John M 40 Agricultural Labourer
WOODBURN Lilly F 35
WOODBURN John M 12
WOODBURN Janet F 8
WOODBURN Maryann F 5
WOODBURN Alexander M 2m
All are born in Ayrshire.
Now Polly what really has excited me
about this family is, and I've just discovered this as I bob back and forth researching and typing this reply is.......
that 2 entries along from them on the Census are a family called Paton whose address is
Bonnihill From what I can glean Bonnyhill is a rural location on a back road between a village called Crookedholm(which sits on the outskirts of Kilmarnock) and a town called Galston. I walked this very road during the summer. It would have been part of Kilmarnock Parish.
So could this family be Marion's and could Cottage Inn near Bonnihill be her home address when she's not in service.
This Woodburn couple are still in roughly the same area on the 1851 Census -
Holms Cottage, Kilmarnock - again rural
WOODBURN John Head M M 54 Agricultural Labourer Ayrshire - Craige
WOODBURN Lilias Wife M F 50 Ayrshire - Ayr
WOODBURN Mary Dau U F 15 Hand Sewer Ayrshire - Kilmarnock
WOODBURN Alexander Son U M 10 Scholar Ayrshire - Kilmarnock
WOODBURN Thomas Son U M 7 Scholar Ayrshire - Kilmarnock
I realise this John is not a weaver, but as this infornation is provided on Marion's death cert it may not be correct.
Certainly the John Woodburn who marries in Kilmaurs, and has a child in West Kilbride could have been an Ag Lab following work. That could also have taken him south to Maybole (where John Woodburn above marries) and then back to Kilmarnock area. And it has to be remembered that at this period many rural people as well as townsfolk would be hand loom weaving too.
I think this couple need to be looked at closer. They are certainly your best bet so far.
Phew, epic post comes to a close.
Better get on with my morning now.....oops it's 12 noon.
Speak later,
Looby